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  1. Jun 18, 2015
    • Masami Hiramatsu's avatar
      perf probe: Show usage even if the last event is skipped · d350bd57
      Masami Hiramatsu authored 
      

When the last part of converted events are blacklisted or out-of-text,
those are skipped and perf probe doesn't show usage examples.  This
fixes it to show the example even if the last part of event list is
skipped.

E.g. without this patch, events are added, but suddenly end:

  # perf probe vfs_*
  vfs_caches_init_early is out of .text, skip it.
  vfs_caches_init is out of .text, skip it.
  Added new events:
    probe:vfs_fallocate  (on vfs_*)
    probe:vfs_open       (on vfs_*)
  ...
    probe:vfs_dentry_acceptable (on vfs_*)
    probe:vfs_load_quota_inode (on vfs_*)
  #

With this fix:

  # perf probe vfs_*
  vfs_caches_init_early is out of .text, skip it.
  vfs_caches_init is out of .text, skip it.
  Added new events:
    probe:vfs_fallocate  (on vfs_*)
  ...
    probe:vfs_load_quota_inode (on vfs_*)

  You can now use it in all perf tools, such as:

	perf record -e probe:vfs_load_quota_inode -aR sleep 1

Note that this can be reproduced ONLY IF the vfs_caches_init* is the
last part of matched symbol list. I've checked this happens on
"3.19.0-generic #18-Ubuntu" kernel binary.

Signed-off-by: default avatarMasami Hiramatsu <masami.hiramatsu.pt@hitachi.com>
Cc: David Ahern <dsahern@gmail.com>
Cc: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@redhat.com>
Cc: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@kernel.org>
Cc: Naohiro Aota <naota@elisp.net>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20150616115057.19906.5502.stgit@localhost.localdomain


Signed-off-by: default avatarArnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
      d350bd57
    • Wang Nan's avatar
      perf tools: Move libtraceevent dynamic list to separated LDFLAGS variable · 5d618324
      Wang Nan authored 
      Commit e3d09ec8

 ("tools lib traceevent:
Export dynamic symbols used by traceevent plugins") adds libtraceevent
dynamic list directly into LDFLAGS, which makes all targets depend on
that list through LDFLAGS.

This is not good since some of targets like libgtk.so doesn't use plugin
at all, but require the existance of that list because of linker
options.

This patch isolates the -Xlink option into LIBTRACEEVENT_DYNAMIC_LIST_LDFLAGS,
makes only perf and perf.so use it.

Signed-off-by: default avatarWang Nan <wangnan0@huawei.com>
Acked-by: default avatarJiri Olsa <jolsa@kernel.org>
Cc: He Kuang <hekuang@huawei.com>
Cc: Masami Hiramatsu <masami.hiramatsu.pt@hitachi.com>
Cc: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@kernel.org>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Cc: Zefan Li <lizefan@huawei.com>
Cc: pi3orama@163.com
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1434552389-89144-1-git-send-email-wangnan0@huawei.com


Signed-off-by: default avatarArnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
      5d618324
    • Wang Nan's avatar
      perf tools: Fix a problem when opening old perf.data with different byte order · b30b6172
      Wang Nan authored 
      

Following error occurs when trying to use 'perf report' on x86_64 to
cross analysis a perf.data generated by an old perf on a big-endian
machine:

 # perf report
 *** Error in `/home/w00229757/perf': free(): invalid next size (fast): 0x00000000032c99f0 ***
 ======= Backtrace: =========
 /lib64/libc.so.6(+0x6eeef)[0x7ff6ff7e2eef]
 /lib64/libc.so.6(+0x78cae)[0x7ff6ff7eccae]
 /lib64/libc.so.6(+0x79987)[0x7ff6ff7ed987]
 /path/to/perf[0x4ac734]
 /path/to/perf[0x4ac829]
 /path/to/perf(perf_header__process_sections+0x129)[0x4ad2c9]
 /path/to/perf(perf_session__read_header+0x2e1)[0x4ad9e1]
 /path/to/perf(perf_session__new+0x168)[0x4bd458]
 /path/to/perf(cmd_report+0xfa0)[0x43eb70]
 /path/to/perf[0x47adc3]
 /path/to/perf(main+0x5f6)[0x42fd06]
 /lib64/libc.so.6(__libc_start_main+0xf5)[0x7ff6ff795bd5]
 /path/to/perf[0x42fe35]
 ======= Memory map: ========
 [SNIP]

The bug is in perf_event__attr_swap(). It swaps all fields in 'struct
perf_event_attr' without checking whether the swapped field exist or
not. In addition, in read_event_desc() allocs memory for attr according
to size read from perf.data.

Therefore, if the perf.data is collected by an old perf (without
aux_watermark, for example), when perf_event__attr_swap() swaping
attr->aux_watermark it destroy malloc's metadata.

This patch introduces boundary checking in perf_event__attr_swap(). It
adds macros bswap_field_64 and bswap_field_32 into
perf_event__attr_swap() to make it only swap exist fields.

Signed-off-by: default avatarWang Nan <wangnan0@huawei.com>
Acked-by: default avatarJiri Olsa <jolsa@kernel.org>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com>
Cc: Masami Hiramatsu <masami.hiramatsu.pt@hitachi.com>
Cc: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@kernel.org>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Cc: Zefan Li <lizefan@huawei.com>
Cc: pi3orama@163.com
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1434534999-85347-1-git-send-email-wangnan0@huawei.com


Signed-off-by: default avatarArnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
      b30b6172
  3. Jun 17, 2015
  5. Jun 16, 2015
  7. Jun 13, 2015
    • Masami Hiramatsu's avatar
      perf probe: Cut off the gcc optimization postfixes from function name · 35a23ff9
      Masami Hiramatsu authored 
      

Cut off the postfixes which gcc added for optimized routines from the
event name automatically generated from symbol name, since *probe-events
doesn't accept it.  Those symbols will be used if we don't use debuginfo
to find target functions.

E.g. without this fix;
  -----
  # perf probe -va alloc_buf.isra.23
  probe-definition(0): alloc_buf.isra.23
  symbol:alloc_buf.isra.23 file:(null) line:0 offset:0 return:0 lazy:(null)
  [...]
  Opening /sys/kernel/debug/tracing/kprobe_events write=1
  Added new event:
  Writing event: p:probe/alloc_buf.isra.23 _text+4869328
  Failed to write event: Invalid argument
    Error: Failed to add events. Reason: Invalid argument (Code: -22)
  -----
With this fix;
  -----
  perf probe -va alloc_buf.isra.23
  probe-definition(0): alloc_buf.isra.23
  symbol:alloc_buf.isra.23 file:(null) line:0 offset:0 return:0 lazy:(null)
  [...]
  Opening /sys/kernel/debug/tracing/kprobe_events write=1
  Added new event:
  Writing event: p:probe/alloc_buf _text+4869328
    probe:alloc_buf      (on alloc_buf.isra.23)

  You can now use it in all perf tools, such as:

  	perf record -e probe:alloc_buf -aR sleep 1

  -----

Signed-off-by: default avatarMasami Hiramatsu <masami.hiramatsu.pt@hitachi.com>
Tested-by: default avatarArnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
Cc: David Ahern <dsahern@gmail.com>
Cc: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@redhat.com>
Cc: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@kernel.org>
Cc: Naohiro Aota <naota@elisp.net>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20150612050820.20548.41625.stgit@localhost.localdomain


Signed-off-by: default avatarArnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
      35a23ff9
  9. Jun 12, 2015
    • Ingo Molnar's avatar
      Merge tag 'perf-core-for-mingo' of... · 61d67d56
      Ingo Molnar authored 
      Merge tag 'perf-core-for-mingo' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/acme/linux

 into perf/core

Pull perf/core improvements and fixes:

User visible changes:

  - Beautify the perf_event_open() syscall in 'perf trace'. (Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo)

  - Error out unsupported group leader immediately in 'perf stat'. (Kan Liang)

  - Amend some 'perf record' option summaries (period, etc). (Peter Zijlstra)

  - Avoid possible race condition in copyfile() in 'perf buildid-cache'. (Milos Vyletel)

Infrastructure changes:

  - Display 0x for hex values when printing the attribute. (Adrian Hunter)

  - Update MANIFEST per files removed from kernel. (David Ahern)

Build fixes:

  - Fix PRIu64 printf related failure on 32-bit arch. (He Kuang)

Signed-off-by: default avatarArnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: default avatarIngo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
      61d67d56
    • David Ahern's avatar
      perf tools: Update MANIFEST per files removed from kernel · c8ad7063
      David Ahern authored 
      

Building perf out of kernel tree is currently broken because the
MANIFEST file refers to kernel files that have been removed. With this
patch make perf-targz-src-pkg succeeds as does building perf using the
generated tarfile.

Signed-off-by: default avatarDavid Ahern <david.ahern@oracle.com>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1433526173-172332-1-git-send-email-david.ahern@oracle.com


Signed-off-by: default avatarArnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
      c8ad7063
    • Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo's avatar
      trace: Beautify perf_event_open syscall · a1c2552d
      Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo authored 
      Syswide tracing and then running 'stat' and 'trace':

 $ perf trace -e perf_event_open
 1034.649 (0.019 ms): perf/6133 perf_event_open(attr_uptr: 0x36f0360, pid: 16134, cpu: -1, group_fd: -1, flags: FD_CLOEXEC) = -1 EINVAL Invalid argument
 1034.670 (0.008 ms): perf/6133 perf_event_open(attr_uptr: 0x36f0360, pid: 16134, cpu: -1, group_fd: -1) = -1 EINVAL Invalid argument
 1034.681 (0.007 ms): perf/6133 perf_event_open(attr_uptr: 0x36f0360, pid: 16134, cpu: -1, group_fd: -1) = -1 EINVAL Invalid argument
 1034.692 (0.007 ms): perf/6133 perf_event_open(attr_uptr: 0x36f0360, pid: 16134, cpu: -1, group_fd: -1) = -1 EINVAL Invalid argument
 9986.983 (0.014 ms): trace/6139 perf_event_open(attr_uptr: 0x7ffd9c629320, pid: -1, group_fd: -1, flags: FD_CLOEXEC) = 3
 9987.026 (0.016 ms): trace/6139 perf_event_open(attr_uptr: 0x37c7e70, pid: -1, group_fd: -1, flags: FD_CLOEXEC) = 3
 9987.041 (0.008 ms): trace/6139 perf_event_open(attr_uptr: 0x37c7e70, pid: -1, group_fd: -1, flags: FD_CLOEXEC) = 3
 9987.489 (0.092 ms): trace/6139 perf_event_open(attr_uptr: 0x3795ee0, pid: 16140, group_fd: -1, flags: FD_CLOEXEC) = 3
 9987.536 (0.044 ms): trace/6139 perf_event_open(attr_uptr: 0x3795ee0, pid: 16140, cpu: 1, group_fd: -1, flags: FD_CLOEXEC) = 4
 9987.580 (0.041 ms): trace/6139 perf_event_open(attr_uptr: 0x3795ee0, pid: 16140, cpu: 2, group_fd: -1, flags: FD_CLOEXEC) = 5
 9987.620 (0.037 ms): trace/6139 perf_event_open(attr_uptr: 0x3795ee0, pid: 16140, cpu: 3, group_fd: -1, flags: FD_CLOEXEC) = 7
 9987.659 (0.035 ms): trace/6139 perf_event_open(attr_uptr: 0x37975d0, pid: 16140, group_fd: -1, flags: FD_CLOEXEC) = 8
 9987.692 (0.031 ms): trace/6139 perf_event_open(attr_uptr: 0x37975d0, pid: 16140, cpu: 1, group_fd: -1, flags: FD_CLOEXEC) = 9
 9987.727 (0.032 ms): trace/6139 perf_event_open(attr_uptr: 0x37975d0, pid: 16140, cpu: 2, group_fd: -1, flags: FD_CLOEXEC) = 10
 9987.761 (0.031 ms): trace/6139 perf_event_open(attr_uptr: 0x37975d0, pid: 16140, cpu: 3, group_fd: -1, flags: FD_CLOEXEC) = 11

Need to intercept perf_copy_attr() with a kprobe or with eBPF...

Cc: Adrian Hunter <adrian.hunter@intel.com>
Cc: Borislav Petkov <bp@suse.de>
Cc: David Ahern <dsahern@gmail.com>
Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Cc: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@redhat.com>
Cc: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@kernel.org>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/n/tip-njb105hab2i3t5dexym9lskl@git.kernel.org


Signed-off-by: default avatarArnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
      a1c2552d
  11. Jun 11, 2015
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  19. Jun 07, 2015
    • Peter Zijlstra's avatar
      perf/x86/intel/pebs: Add PEBSv3 decoding · a3d86542
      Peter Zijlstra authored 
      

PEBSv3 as present on Skylake fixed the long standing issue of the
status bits. They now really reflect the events that generated the
record.

Tested-by: default avatarAndi Kleen <ak@linux.intel.com>
Tested-by: default avatarKan Liang <kan.liang@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: default avatarPeter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Signed-off-by: default avatarIngo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
      a3d86542
    • Kan Liang's avatar
      perf tools: handle PERF_RECORD_LOST_SAMPLES · c4937a91
      Kan Liang authored 
      

This patch modifies the perf tool to handle the new RECORD type,
PERF_RECORD_LOST_SAMPLES.

The number of lost-sample events is stored in
.nr_events[PERF_RECORD_LOST_SAMPLES]. The exact number of samples
which the kernel dropped is stored in total_lost_samples.

When the percentage of dropped samples is greater than 5%, a warning
is printed.

Here are some examples:

Eg 1, Recording different frequently-occurring events is safe with the
      patch. Only a very low drop rate is associated with such actions.

$ perf record -e '{cycles:p,instructions:p}' -c 20003 --no-time ~/tchain ~/tchain

$ perf report -D | tail
          SAMPLE events:     120243
           MMAP2 events:          5
    LOST_SAMPLES events:         24
  FINISHED_ROUND events:         15
cycles:p stats:
           TOTAL events:      59348
          SAMPLE events:      59348
instructions:p stats:
           TOTAL events:      60895
          SAMPLE events:      60895

$ perf report --stdio --group
 # To display the perf.data header info, please use --header/--header-only options.
 #
 #
 # Total Lost Samples: 24
 #
 # Samples: 120K of event 'anon group { cycles:p, instructions:p }'
 # Event count (approx.): 24048600000
 #
 #         Overhead  Command      Shared Object     Symbol
 # ................  ...........  ................
 ..................................
 #
    99.74%  99.86%  tchain_edit  tchain_edit       [.] f3
     0.09%   0.02%  tchain_edit  tchain_edit       [.] f2
     0.04%   0.00%  tchain_edit  [kernel.vmlinux]  [k] ixgbe_read_reg

Eg 2, Recording the same thing multiple times can lead to high drop
      rate, but it is not a useful configuration.

$ perf record -e '{cycles:p,cycles:p}' -c 20003 --no-time ~/tchain
Warning: Processed 600592 samples and lost 99.73% samples!
[perf record: Woken up 148 times to write data]
[perf record: Captured and wrote 36.922 MB perf.data (1206322 samples)]
[perf record: Woken up 1 times to write data]
[perf record: Captured and wrote 0.121 MB perf.data (1629 samples)]

Signed-off-by: default avatarKan Liang <kan.liang@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: default avatarPeter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: acme@infradead.org
Cc: eranian@google.com
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1431285195-14269-9-git-send-email-kan.liang@intel.com


Signed-off-by: default avatarIngo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
      c4937a91